NASA Makes an EPIC Update to Website for Daily Earth Pics
Source: NASA
NASA has upgraded its website that provides daily views of the Earth from one million miles away. NASA’s Earth Polychromatic Imaging Camera (EPIC) camera imagery website was recently updated allowing the public to choose natural or enhanced color images of the Earth and even zoom into an area on the globe.
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The website was initially launched in 2015 after NOAA's Deep Space Climate Observatory or DSCOVR satellite achieved orbit almost one million miles from Earth. DSCOVR is a NOAA Earth observation and space weather satellite launched by Space-X on a Falcon 9 launch vehicle on February 11, 2015 from Cape Canaveral, Florida.
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The website also contains galleries of images and animations from specific events like moon transits. The basic information about the EPIC camera is in the “EPIC" section, and information about the imagery is found in the "About" section. A link to NOAA’s site is in the “DSCOVR" section.
DSCOVR is a partnership between NOAA, NASA and the U.S. Air Force. NOAA is operating DSCOVR from its NOAA Satellite Operations Facility in Suitland, Maryland, and will process the space weather data at the Space Weather Prediction Center (SWPC) in Boulder, Colorado. From there, the SWPC will distribute the DSCOVR data to users within the United States and around the world. The data will be archived at NOAA’s National Geophysical Data Center, also in Boulder.
EPIC's website can be found at: http://epic.gsfc.nasa.gov/
For the DSCOVR website, visit:
https://www.nesdis.noaa.gov/content/dscovr-deep-space-climate-observatory
Read more: https://www.nasa.gov/feature/goddard/2017/nasa-makes-an-epic-update-to-website-for-daily-earth-pics
The satellite is also known as "GoreSat" because it was proposed by Al Gore during his Vice Presidency.
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It's a beautiful planet!
burfman...............
Here's the flip side from Japan's Himawari 8 sat that has the same type of camera on it.
